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Wednesday. Nov. 2, 2005
REVIEW: Programs
stand up to evaluation
Continued from REVIEW, Page 1
for adult basic skills and head
of the peer review committee.
The evaluation involved
two separate departments: the
ESL Department and the Skills
Development Department,
which includes the ABE/
GED/AHSD Program, the
Targeted Learning Center, the
Tri-City Alternatives Program
at Harmony, the Workforce
Development Program, and
the Young Parent Opportunity
Program.
“Our programs are,, not
terminal programs any lon
ger. People don’t come to our
programs just to get a GED
and then they’re done. People
come to our programs to learn
English to communicate with
their children’s schools ... to
gain skills for employment
placement ... to get better
than minimum wage jobs.”
“We knew [beforehand]
where our points of weak
ness [were],” said Marks, “it
would have been a surprise
if they had said ‘you guys
totally missed something.’”
The
Peer
Review
Committee, which consisted
of state staff members and
faculty members from Lane
Community College, T-inn-
Benton Community College,
and Portland Community
College, spent a week evalu
ating Clackamas faculty on
their performance.
“We do view this as [a]
program monitoring and tech
nical assistance visit,” said
Kulongoski. “At the state
we’re interested in how we
can help support programs
and [their] further develop
ment.”
The departments involved
are happy with the suc
cess of the review and are
already making plans for their
improvements.
“We will be looking to our
department meeting to make
plans for [the future],” said
Marks, who expects a long
term execution of the improve
ment plans in the works. “We
don’t expect to fix everything
in one year.”
Kulongoski says the evalu
ation was successful and,
despite their professional pur
pose on campus, the com
mittee enjoyed their stay at
Clackamas.
“It’s a wonderful commu
nity here,” she said. “It’s very
collaborative. Everybody has
a student at heart here. The
student is the focal point and
that was evident in th» classr
room, in all our administra
tion meetings and in all the
departments. It’s really been
an enjoyable week.”
CCC hosts the
Back-to-School Night!
What? A free event celebrating
the opening of the Niemeyer
building to the community.
Cheap repairs for
Courtney O’Byrne
The Clackamas Print
For only the cost of parts
plus a 20 percent miscella
neous fee, Clackamas students
. in the power transmissions
•class will do repair work on
transaxles, clutches and man
ual transmissions.
While the offer isn’t only
for students, applications for
repairs must be picked up
from Pam Brown in the auto
motive department’s main
office. The applications ask
only fo* contact information,
a brief problem description,
and basic information about
your vehicle, such as its year,
make, model, transmission
type, and engine size, which
is used for determining parts.
All applications will be
taken into consideration by
the college’s full-time auto
motive
instructors
Nick
Miller, Jay Leuck, and Rick
Lockwood. Selected vehicles
will be brought in for a cost
estimate, which will include
the approximate cost of parts
and materials. The instruc
tors prefer that the vehicle
is 10 years old or newer and
will choose the vehicles based
upon fulfillment of project
requirements.
On à similar note, the gen
eral repair class is taking tune
ups and brake jobs, though
Matt Olsen CMi
Student Nick Fox is just one of many automotive
dents gaining experience by working on customer]
since the class only runs on
Fridays, customers run the
risk of having their car in the
shop for a week if it does not
get finished on the first day.
Brown encourages students
as well as the general public
to give the program a shot.
“At a shop you’ll pay-the cost
of parts, plus $60 to $70 an
hour, so you save a consider
able amount of money by not
having to pay labor.”
The automotive program,
which has seen an incredible,
class-filling turnout this year,
CAMPUS EVENTS
& NEWS
refreshments will be provided ...
EVERYONE IS INVITED!!!
offers different serviq
ing different terms,
the winter term the]
specials on brake job
during the spring ten
work on chassis syste
comfort systems, such;
ing and cooling. Clast
on body and paint proj
a varying schedule th«
the school year.
Those interested m
Brown at 503-657-6^
2354 with questions J
up an appointment
with an instructor.
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are taken
When? TODAYfrom 4-7p.m.
Where?
At
Clackamas
Community College in the
Niemeyer Center for the
Performing Arts.
Clackamas
The Spanish Club will be meeting today. Guest
speaker David Campbell will be talking about his
involvement in the Peace Corps, and his experi
ences in Venezuela. This event is open to anyone
who wants to come and will be held in Spanish and
English. The club will meet from 12:15 - 1 p.m. in
Barlow 203.
Later today is the Back-to-School Night at the
Niemeyer Center from 4-7 p.m. The event is free
and everyone is invited. There will be opportunities
to see the theater and music departments at work.
Refreshments will be provided. For more information
contact Janet Paulson at 503-657-6958 ext. 2307.
For those in Phi Theta Kappa the induction cer
emony is tomorrow at 6:30 p.m. Cake and guest
speakers will be there as well.
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clarity, not content
10-27-05
4:55 p.m.
Contacted white male]
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of Dye Learning Cent!
Verbal warning to stop
5:30 p.m.
Collected suspicious 3
from Roger Rook. T im
in by instructor.
6:45 p.m
Chartwells:
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The Cougar Café is open
ASG needs clothes for the Clothes Closet they’re
setting up. They are collecting job-interview-type
clothes which will go to the Work Experience
Program. The clothes will be used by unemployed
students to wear to job interviews and the first two -
days of work. The Clothing Drive runs from now
until Friday, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. Monday through Friday.
For more information contact Hillary Fletcher, sena
tor for the clothes closet, at 503-657-6958, ext. 5345.
For all you people who’ve put it off till now and
will regret it later: Saturday is the last day to drop
a class without responsibility for a grade.
M-Th: 7 AM to 7:30 PM
Fridays: 7 AM to 2:30 PM
Breakfast Grill open 7 -10:30 /W
Lunch Grill open 10:30 AM-2 PM
Corning Soon! !
Check out our new
The theater department’s fall production “All
My Sons” begins Nov. 10. See page 5 for a preview
of the play.
Need money? There are these things called schol
arships that occasionally provide money. The col
lege has scholarships. The funds will be available
for winter term 2006. Applications are available
in the Roger Rook Lobby or online at http://depts.
clackamas;edu/fs/scholarship.asp. Questions can be
directed to Chippi Bello, 503-657-6958, ext. 2373.
Also, the college will be closed next Friday,
Nov. 12 from 8 a.m. until 10 p.m. for Veterans day.
Offered assitance to
student needing jump
Offer refused.
10-26-05
9:20 a.m.
Staff reported white d
juvenile skateboard at
Learning Center. Local
owner of board.
7:35 p.m.
Found unattended boo
bag in library. Locate!
owner.
10-25-05
12:45 p.m.
Student reported two
tires on his vehicle in
Barlow lot.
2:12 p.m.
Reported two white fe
males vandalizing tras
lid.